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Development economics
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The purpose of this course is to provide students with analytical and empirical tools apt to build up an advanced and solid understanding of economic development processes. This objective will be pursued by connecting the theory to public policy issues at global level, international development cooperation and field level issues and key elements. The introduction of different approaches, and their firm connection within an interdisciplinary and critical perspective, is intended to lay the ground for the skills needed to contribute in the area of international development both at desk, field and analysis level.
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21210129 Development economics in Economia dell'ambiente, lavoro e sviluppo sostenibile LM-56 D'AGOSTINO GIORGIO
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Module 1: Preliminaries
Development Economics: An Overview
Understanding Development: Concepts and Definitions
Historical Perspectives on Development Thought
Assessing the State of Development
Module 2: Poverty
Theoretical Approaches & empirical Issues
Social Programs
Module 3: Inequality
Theoretical Approaches & empirical Issues
Module 4: Economic Growth
Stylized Facts of Economic Growth
The Solow Model: A Framework for Understanding Growth
Applying the Solow Model to Real-world Contexts
Public Spending and its Impact on Economic Growth
Module 5: Conflict and Development
Determinants of Conflict
The Interplay between Conflict and Development
Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development
( reference books)
Alain De Janvry & Elisabeth Sadoulet (2021) Development Economics, Theory and Practice (Second edition). Routledge, New York.
Jurgen Brauer & J. Paul Dunne (2012) Peace Economics: A Macroeconomic Primer for Violence-afflicted States. United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington, DC.
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Industry and innovation policies in developing countries: theory and practice
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The course focuses on the economic logic behind policies and programs to promote industry and innovation in a developing country context. Students interested in working for multilateral organizations, government agencies, private sector firms working in emerging markets, NGOs and other organizations promoting innovation and industrial development should take this course.
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21210063 Industry and innovation policies in developing countries: theory and practice in Economia dell'ambiente, lavoro e sviluppo sostenibile LM-56 PIETROBELLI CARLO
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Industrial development and innovation are the essential forces that determine growth, development and structural change. In particular, innovation plays an essential role in the developing world and its role will be increasingly important. This course will give students the tools and analytical methods to think systematically about industrial development and innovation in developing countries, and provide them with a practical understanding of these phenomena.
Part one of the course lays the theoretical foundations of industrial development, including traditional, as well as, new and unorthodox approaches, with a focus on the theory of the firm and of innovation in emerging countries.
Part two of the course explores in detail the tools and mechanisms frequently implemented in industrial and innovation policies and programs, and analyzes the approaches followed by some governments and international organizations using concrete empirical examples from policies and projects implemented.
( reference books)
Selected Chapters from:
Szirmai A. (2015) Socio-Economic Development: Cambridge University Press, 2nd Ed.., chapters 8 and 9.
Crespi G., Fernandez-Arias E. and Stein E. (Eds.), 2014, Rethinking Productive Development: Sound Policies and Institutions for Productive Transformation, Development in the Americas, London: Palgrave for Inter-American Development Bank. Chapters 1, 2 and 3.
Cirera X. and Maloney W.F., 2017, The Innovation Paradox: Developing Country Capabilities and the Unrealized Promise of Technological Catch-Up, Washington DC: The World Bank, https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/28341 chapters 1, 2, and 4.
Articles:
1. Bell M.R. and Pavitt K., 1993, ‘Technological Accumulation and Industrial Growth: Contrasts between Developed and Developing Countries’, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol.2 No.2.
2. Casaburi G., Maffioli A., Pietrobelli C., 2014, Policies to Promote Coordination among Interlinked Firms, in Crespi et al., Rethinking Industrial Policy: Sound Policies and Institutions for Productive Transformation, Palgrave, chapter 7.
3. Fagerberg J., 2006, “Innovation. A Guide to the Literature”, in J.Fagerberg and D.Mowery (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4. Gereffi G., Humphrey J., Sturgeon T., 2005, “The governance of global value chains”, Review of International Political Economy, 12:1, 78-104.
5. Giuliani E., Pietrobelli C. and Rabellotti R. (2005) “Upgrading in Global Value Chains: Lessons from Latin American Clusters”, World Development, Vol.33(4), pp. 549–73.
6. Hallward-Driemeier, M. and Pritchett L., 2015. "How Business Is Done in the Developing World: Deals versus Rules." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 29(3): 121-40. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.29.3.121
7. Hausmann R. and Rodrik D. (2006) “Doomed to Choose: Industrial Policy as a Predicament”, Harvard Kennedy School Working Paper. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/index.php/content/download/69495/1250790/version/1/file/hausmann_doomed_0609.pdf
8. Hausmann R. and Rodrik D., (2003), “Economic Development as Self Discovery,” Journal of Development Economics, Vol.72, Issue 2, pages 603-33, December (also NBER Working Paper No. 8952).
9. Lall S. and Pietrobelli C., 2005, “National Technology Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa”, International Journal of Technology and Globalization, KSG, Harvard, Vol.1 No.3-4, 2005.
10. Lall S., 1992, "Technological Capabilities and Industrialization", World Development, Vol.20 No.2
11. Lin J. and Chang H.J., 2009, “Should Industrial Policy in Developing Countries Conform to Comparative Advantage or Defy it? A Debate Between Justin Lin and Ha-Joon Chang”, Development Policy Review, 2009, 27 (5): 483-502
12. Lundvall B‐Å. (2007) “National Innovation Systems—Analytical Concept and Development Tool”, Industry and Innovation, 14:1, 95-119, DOI: 10.1080/13662710601130863
13. Maffioli A., Pietrobelli C. and Stucchi R., 2016, The Impact Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs, Washington D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank, http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000335 Chapter 1.
14. McMillan, M., Rodrik, D., Verduzco-Gallo, I., 2014, “Globalization, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth, with an Update on Africa”. World Development 63: 11-32, doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.10.012
15. Nelson R.R., 2008, “Economic Development from the Perspective of Evolutionary Theory”, Oxford Development Studies Vo.36 No.1 March, pp.9-22
16. Pietrobelli C., 1997, ‘On the Theory of Technological Capabilities and Developing Countries’ Dynamic Comparative Advantage in Manufactures’, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, Vol.XLIV, No. 2, June.
17. Pietrobelli, C. & Staritz, C., 2017, “Upgrading, Interactive Learning, and Innovation Systems in Value Chain Interventions”, European Journal of Development Research, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-017-0112-5
18. Rodrik D., 2013, “Unconditional Convergence in Manufacturing”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, pp.165-204, doi:10.1093/qje/qjs047
OPTIONAL SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Chatterji A., Glaeser E.L., Kerr W.K., 2013, “Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation”, NBER Working Paper 19013 http://www.nber.org/papers/w19013
EIU, “Innovation Clusters: Understanding life cycles”, The Economist Intelligence Unit, London http://destinationinnovation.economist.com/category/cluster-effects/
Fernández-Arias E., Sabel C., Stein E., Trejos A., 2017, “Two to Tango: Public-Private Collaboration for Productive Development Policies”, IDB Working Paper IDB-WP-855, Washington D.C.: The Inter-American Development Bank. https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/8697
Fu X., Pietrobelli C., Soete L., 2011, “The Role of Foreign Technology and Indigenous Innovation in the Emerging Economies: Technological Change and Catching-up”, World Development Vol. 39, No. 7, pp. 1204–1212
Humphrey J. and Schmitz H. (2002) “How does insertion in global value chains affect upgrading industrial clusters?”, Regional Studies, Vol. 36, No.9.
Podcast on Structural Change, Interview to Dani Rodrik, IMF Podcast, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2013/INT062813A.htm
Schmitz H. and Nadvi K., (1999). "Clustering and Industrialization: Introduction”, World Development, Vol. 27, No.9., pp. 1503-14.
Szirmai A., 2011, “Manufacturing and Economic Development”, UNU-WIDER Working Paper No. 2011/75, November, https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/manufacturing-and-economic-development
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L’Agenda 2030 delle Nazioni Unite per lo sviluppo sostenibile e gli studi economici e sociali
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• Introduction to the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 as a whole and in its general structure
• Analysis of the 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
• Critical discussion on the organization of the Agenda and the links between its various objectives, both in terms of synergies and of conflicts
• Insights on some of the Agenda objectives, especially concerning the specific interests and/or study plans of the students
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International trade and Migration
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This course will provide students with an analytical framework for the study of international trade. It is divided into four main parts. The first considers both the predictions of the classical trade theory (i.e., the Ricardian Model and the Heckscher-Ohlin Model) and the new trade models with imperfect competition, including the most recent developments related to firm- level evidence. The second one discusses the effects and the political economy determinants of trade policy. Preferential trade agreements will also be discussed. The third part is devoted to analysing the topic of migration flows, their characteristics, determinants, evolution and impacts. Finally, the last part deals with the empirical analysis of international trade.
The course considers both the theories and recent empirical works, as well as a discussion of the relevant methodological issues in measurement and estimation.
At the end of the course students will be able to understand the main determinants of international trade and migration flows, the characteristics and implications of trade policy measures and to work with trade and trade policy data.
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21210420 International trade and Migration in Economia dell'ambiente, lavoro e sviluppo sostenibile LM-56 NENCI SILVIA
( syllabus)
This course will provide students with an analytical framework for the study of international trade. It is divided into three main parts. The first considers both the predictions of the classical trade theory (i.e., the Ricardian Model and the Heckscher-Ohlin Model) and the new trade models with imperfect competition, including the most recent developments related to firm-level evidence. The second one discusses the effects and the political economy determinants of trade policy. Preferential trade agreements will also be discussed. The third part is devoted to analyse the topic of migration flows, their characteristics, determinants and evolution.
The course considers both the theories and recent empirical works, as well as a discussion of the relevant methodological issues in measurement and estimation.
Articles on current topics will be proposed during the class with the purpose of stimulating class discussion.
Outline
Section 1: International trade: stylized facts
- Facts, changes and history of globalization
Section 2: Trade theories
- The Ricardian Model
- The Specific-Factors Model
- Factor endowments and the Heckscher-Ohlin Model
- Movement of labor and Capital
- The New Trade Theories
- Offshoring and Global Value Chain
- Firm Heterogeneity
Section 3: Trade policy
- Import Tariffs and Quotas
- Export subsidies and taxes
- Non-tariff barriers
- Multilateral trade integration: the World Trade Organization
Section 4: Migration
- International migration flows
- Determinants of migration
- Economic impact of migration on countries of origin and destination
Section 5: Empirical lab sessions
- Trade and trade policies data sources
- Working with trade and trade policies data: the gravity model
( reference books)
Feenstra R. C. and A.M Taylor (2017), International Trade, Forth Edition, Worth Publishers, chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Clemens, M. A. 2011. “Economics and Emigration: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk?”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Summer), pp. 83-106
Lecture slides, articles and other teaching material will be downloadable from the Web page of the course.
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Economics for sustainability and agri-food innovation
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VAQUERO PINEIRO CRISTINA
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Relations between agriculture and the rest of the economy, with reference to the Italian agri-food sector
• Recalls of economics (market structures and consumption theory), with reference to analyse the demand for agri-food products at national and international level
• The characteristics of the agri-food consumption, consumers’ choices and certifications, with particular reference to the role of sustainability and quality as drivers of product differentiation
• The characteristics of the Italian agri-food system
• Recalls of environmental economics, with a specific focus on the relation with the agri-food system
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Lecture notes (available on Moodle)
Papers and reports on agricultural and agri-food economics, with a specific focus on the Italian agri-food sector (available on Moodle)
Papers and reports on EU agri-food quality policy and Geographical Indications, with a specific focus on the Italian agri-food sector (available on Moodle)
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